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Unit 7 Vocab
Unit 7 - cities
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Geography
9th Grade
04/18/2014

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Basic/Nonbasic Sectors
Definition
Basic sector of a local economy includes any industry that brings money from outside the area. Nonbasic sector includes all industry that supports and services the local community
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Burgess, E.W
Definition
Sociologist who crated the concentric zone model in 1923
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Bosnywash
Definition
The megalopolis area that spreads from Boston to beyond Washington, DC.
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Census Tract
Definition
Areas of approximately 5,000 people that correspond whenever possible to neighborhood boundaries
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Central Business District (CBD)
Definition
Area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered
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Center City
Definition
A city surrounded by suburbs
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Central Place Theory
Definition
Views urban settlements as centers for the distribution of economic goods and services to surrounding nonurban populations
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Christaller, Walter
Definition
Provided the central place theory model for settlement patterns
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City
Definition
nucleated settlements that perform multiple residential and nonresidential function, and include central business district and surrounding residences
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City-State
Definition
Self-governing communities that included nearby countryside
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Complementary Regions
Definition
Noncompeting market areas
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Concentric Zone Model
Definition
Views cities as growing outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings
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Councils Of Government
Definition
Cooperative agencies consisting of representatives from local governments in the region
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Disamenity Sector
Definition
A relatively stable slum area that radiates from the central market to the outermost zone of peripheral squatter settlements consists of high-density shantytowns
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Edge Cities
Definition
CLusters of large buildings away from the CBD
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Export Activities
Definition
Producing goods for areas outside the city
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Feminization Of Poverty
Definition
Increasing proportion of the poor who are women
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Formative Era
Definition
Period between 4000 and 2000 B.C.E when the major urban hearths came into existance
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Gentrification
Definition
Once housing in an area has been renovated, the neighborhood often begins to attract middle-class residents
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Ghettos
Definition
In many American cities, black Americans and Latinos are segregated into nuclear communities that are frequently among the most undesirable neighborhoods with dilapidated housing, high crime rates, and inadequate schools.
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Ghettoization
Definition
Process of being forced into the Ghetto
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Greenbelt
Definition
Rings of open space where houses may not be built
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Hamlet
Definition
Small cluster of farmer's houses with few basic services
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Harris And Ullman
Definition
Geographers that developed the multiple-nuclei model in 1945
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Hierarchy Of Central Places
Definition
Small centers providing lower-order services than large centers do
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Hoyt, Homer
Definition
Land economist who developed the sector model in 1939
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Infrastructure
Definition
The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
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In Situ Accretion
Definition
Ringed zone that contains much more modest housing and transitions to the outer-ring poverty
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Manufacturing City
Definition
Where factories attracted laborers from rural areas and other countries to tenements constructed to provide housing for factory workers
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Megacity
Definition
Cities with a population of more than 10 million
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Megalopolis
Definition
A very large urban complex
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Megastores
Definition
Huge stores with a wide variety of products designed for one-stop shopping
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Mercantile City
Definition
City where trade became central to city design
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Metropolitan Area
Definition
A large-scale functional entity that operates as an integrated economic whole
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Metropolitan Statistical Area
Definition
A central county or counties with at least one urbanized area of at least 50,000 people, plus adjacent outlying counties with a large number of residents that commute in
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Micropolitan Statistical Area
Definition
Has at least one urban cluster between 10,000 and 50,000 people plus outlying counties with considerable social and economic integration
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Multiple-Nuclei Model
Definition
Counters that large cities develop by spreading from several nodes of growth, not just one
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Multiplier Effect
Definition
Effect in which new basic sector employment is accompanied by a larger share of nonbasic workers, decreasing the ratio of basic sector workers to nonbasic
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Nucleated
Definition
With one or more clear core areas
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Peripheral Model
Definition
A model noting an urban area consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas
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Physical City
Definition
A continuous development that contains a central city and many nearby cities, towns, and suburbs
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Primate Cities
Definition
Larger than other cities in the area and representing a national culture
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Public Housing
Definition
Reserved for low-income households
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Rank-Size Rule
Definition
The nth largest city will be 1/n the size of the largest city
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Sector Model
Definition
Shows that a city develops in a series of sectors, not rings. Sectors determined by environmental factors or develop by chance
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Settlement Geography
Definition
Patterns of settlement on the earth's surface
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Smart Growth
Definition
Steps to club sprawl, limit traffic congestion, and reverse inner-city decline
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Social Area Analysis
Definition
Puts together information from census tracts to create an overall picture of how various types of people are distributed within a broader area, like a city
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Special-Function Cities
Definition
Cities engaged in mining, manufacturing, or recreation
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Sprawl
Definition
The progressive development of landscape in the suburban area
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States
Definition
Organized territories under governments
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Suburbs
Definition
Areas that are nucleated, but use much land space for residences of people that work in or near cities
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Town
Definition
Another word for city but smaller and complex
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Transportation Centers
Definition
Where major routes converge
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Urban Area
Definition
A geographical area consisting of a city or town
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Urban Elite
Definition
Decision makers and organizers
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Urban Empire
Definition
Nation or group of territories ruled by a single, powerful leader or emperor
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Urban Geography
Definition
Focuses on how cities function, their internal systems and structures, and the external influences on them
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Urban Hierarchy
Definition
A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions
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Urban Influence Zone
Definition
Areas outside the city that are affected by it
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Urban Renewal
Definition
Government buys properties from the owners, relocate residents and businesses, clear the sites, and build new roads and utilities
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Wirth, Louis
Definition
In the 1930s, the social scientist defined a city as a permanent settlement that has three characteristics that create living experiences for urban residents that are different from residents in rural areas: Large Size, High Density, and Social Heterogeneity
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World City
Definition
Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce.
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Zone In Transition
Definition
An area that is either becoming more rural or more urban
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Zone Of Maturity
Definition
old part of city, more wealthy live here, bigger houses
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Zoning Ordinances
Definition
Encourage spatial separation by preventing mixing of land uses within the same district
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Base ratio
Definition
Ratio between workers employed in the basic sector and those employed in the no basic sector
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